Re: Five-year draft history

Where did we fall on this list when times were good.....upper 40's? Monken did well considering all factors. Hopson will focus on defense and get our reputation back to keep us in games, grabbing potential talent like the Dandy Dozen kid out of Florida. La Tech is leading CUSA on this list and we have done well against them during our rough patch. WKU will be interesting to watch with the change in staff. Surprised to see UTSA so far down on this list.

Re: Five-year draft history

Nugget's Ghostbuster wrote:

Where did we fall on this list when times were good.....upper 40's? Monken did well considering all factors. Hopson will focus on defense and get our reputation back to keep us in games, grabbing potential talent like the Dandy Dozen kid out of Florida. La Tech is leading CUSA on this list and we have done well against them during our rough patch. WKU will be interesting to watch with the change in staff. Surprised to see UTSA so far down on this list.

I took a look and I was surprised how many players used to get drafted. Here's a 20-year history:

A few things stand out. Bower's recruiting deteriorated pretty badly during the pizza bowl era. Fedora didn't send much talent to the NFL. His system is pretty different from the systems that were being run in the NFL back then, I think. The Ellis Johnson era was actually a relative high point, talent-wise. We had high-round picks in 2012, 2013, and 2014.